An Oldham restaurant worker raped three girls after cruising the streets of Oldham looking for victims, a court heard.

Tanveer Nazir (23) launched a “quick and efficient” attack on each after offering them a lift in his car, it was said.

Each victim — two schoolgirls and a woman — was raped where she sat in the passenger seat before being put out of the vehicle, it was alleged.

Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester heard how Nazir left traces of semen providing a DNA profile in each case. The jury heard how the chances of the DNA identification of Nazir being wrong was one billion to one.

Nazir, of Wellington Road, Coppice, denies three charges of rape.

Prosecutor Miss Susan Klonin told how the attacks occurred during a five month period between January and June, 2003.

The victims — aged 15, 22 and 14 — had been walking home alone in Oldham in the early hours of the morning when Nazir stopped and offered them a lift.

The court heard that in each case the girls accepted but Nazir then took them beyond where they wanted to go and stopped the vehicle.

He then climbed on top of them in the passenger seat and raped them before letting them out of the car and speeding away, it was claimed. Miss Klonin said: “No girl ever had a chance.”

Link to The Oldham Chronicle (links to the Oldham Chronicle do not last very long, I think they have limited server space and do not archive stories for long)

A MAN has been charged with assisting his brother who is accused of murdering his mother-in-law.

Mohammed Sharif Kahn, 37, of Crumpsall, Manchester has been charged with assisting in the disposal of Zeinab Begum's body and was due to appear before Blackburn Magistrates Court today.

His brother Mohammed Arshad, 36, also of the Crumpsall area, and the owner of Millennium takeaway in Church Street, Accrington, appeared before Hyndburn Magistrates court yesterday charged with murdering missing mother-of-six Mrs Begum.

Arshad was remanded in custody to Preston Crown Court until, February 11. at the case

Police have 40 officers working on the case.

Ward councillor for Netherton ward, Dr Mohammed Rahman, said: "It's such a tragic thing. I'm really saddened about it but the police have to do what they have to do to get to the bottom of it.

Mr Sheikh had served two years of his sentence
The Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction of a former care worker who was serving an eight-year sentence for child abuse.
Anver Daud Sheikh was appealing against his conviction for serious sexual assault against two boys in his care.

Police are continuing to investigate a spate of attacks near campus
Detectives investigating a spate of sex attacks on lone students have charged a man with 14 offences. Leszek Marian Rucki, 35, of Honeysuckle Road, Swaythling, Southampton, is accused of attacking students near Southampton University between 14 and 16 January

I don't know where that name comes from but it sure as hell ain't English.

Akram was found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court
A taxi driver is facing jail after being convicted of indecently assaulting a woman and a teenage girl in his cab.
Mohammed Akram carried out two separate attacks on his victims - aged 44 and 16 - in Glasgow's south side last year

A man has been jailed for two years for leaving the scene of an accident in which a nine-year-old boy was killed.
Kamel Kadri, 38, of Wallace Parade, Goring, was sentenced at Chichester Crown Court on Thursday.

The court heard that Kadri, an illegal immigrant, was driving his Renault 5 when it struck the child on New Year's Day.

Callum John Oakford was with his brother and a friend when he was killed on the A259 in Ferring, West Sussex.